Weil-petersson isometries VIA the pants complex

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 795-803

  Brock, Jeffrey ^a   Margalit, Dan ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Isometries; Mapping class groups; Teichm uller space; Weil Petersson metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849115881     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08577-7     Document Type: Article

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